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Psalm 23-English
“The Lord is my shepherd” is probably the best known statement in the Bible. Often mistakenly attributed to the New Testament, it is actually one of the “Psalms of David” as indicated in the superscription of the Psalm (v.1). Since it is usually quoted in its King James version or in one of the revised modern versions following the King James, we shall initially refer to its verses in that style, but introduce in parentheses a few modern translations mostly taken from the 1969 Jewish Publication Society edition.
The central shepherd metaphor of the first four verses, the Lord as the shepherd of the psalmist or the worshiper, is the quintessence of confidence in a providential God: caring, guiding, protecting, comforting. The full confidence of the opening declaration is evident in the four Hebrew words, Adonai ro’i lo ehsar (The Lord [is] my shepherd, I shall not want (I shall lack nothing)) which draws added force from the total absence of a causal conjunction. The text does not say: The Lord is my shepherd and therefore I shall not want. No sequence of cause or time is mentioned; the two key introductory phrases stand together. This is a declaration of faith, but also serves as a supplication: May the Lord act as my shepherd throughout life.
The shepherd metaphor is further strengthened by specific examples “He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me to still (restful) waters,” The peaceful places, the pasturage and the calm waters, are even more striking in the Hebrew where they appear first in two balanced metrical units followed by verbs conveying God’s actions: “Bin’ot deshe yarbitseini, al mei menuhot yenahaleini.” In the third verse, the pastoral imagery is endowed with a moral tone: “He restores my soul (life); He leads me in the paths of righteousness (right paths) for His name’s sake.”
The pastoral image is conclusively reaffirmed in the fourth verse where the psalmist asserts: “Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death (of deepest darkness), I fear no evil (harm) for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff—they comfort me.”
The comforting sense of security the psalmist feels derives from the shepherd’s staff which, throughout history, evolved into the symbol of the pastor in religious and regal settings. Precisely at this point in the psalm when danger and God’s protection is invoked, the pronominal relationship changes from I-HE to I-You. The presence of danger seems to generate a closer personal relationship.
In the second part of the psalm, verses 5 and 6, we move from the shepherd metaphor to the banquet metaphor, from the pastoral to the urban. While preserving the second person address to God and the reference to enemies found in verse 4, the psalmist imagines God’s endowing him with material abundance: a set table, luxurious oil on the head, abundant drink. In a coda of hope he asserts: “Surely goodness and mercy (steadfast love) shall follow (pursue) me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever (for many long years).” “The house of the Lord” (Bet Adonai) in Psalms is always the Temple in Jerusalem and not merely God’s universe. It is impossible to read the verse literally, that the worshiper hopes to dwell in the House of The Lord forever (only priests and Levites lived in the Temple precinct). The Temple of the Lord with its sanctity and security is often seen by the psalmist as the consummate emblem of God’s majestic governance of the world. Its symbolism as the goal of pilgrimages and hence, pilgrimage psalms, is widely attested in Psalms. This psalm thus progresses from the simple pastoral metaphor to the more complex Temple metaphor to convey his full trust in Adonai ro’i, God, my shepherd.
Some commentators, relying on references to God’s leading His people like sheep on the right path and to the Temple pilgrimages, read this psalm as an exilic yearning for a return to Jerusalem. Furthermore, since the reference to the return from exile, a second Exodus in Biblical literature, also implies future returns and redemptions in Jewish tradition, this psalm is recited at funerals and other occasions commemorating the departed. The phrase Orekh yamim (length of days) ordinarily means a long natural life, but can be interpreted to refer to existence after death. By adding to the four pastoral verses the last two banquet or Temple verses, the psalmist has significantly expanded the range of possible readings of the psalm. The 23rd Psalm thus stands as a model of the complexity of composition we encounter in all the psalms.
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"faith is a gift from God. it is not something we can earn or acquire by our own efforts. there is a mystery about how God grants this gift. a person can read the whole Bible, study the best of theologians, and listen to the most persuasive of preachers without coming to faith… some of us may think we have faith because we were born of catholic parents who saw to it that we were baptized as infants. but some people, baptized as infants, have rejected the faith later life. others may have become converts as adults and think that faith came from the good example and teaching of others. some however have witnessed good example and heard sound teaching without converting. in the final analysis we must all stand before God in wonder that for His own good reasons, without merit of our own, He has freely chosen to give us faith as a gift. and faith makes all the difference in our lives." — Fr. Denny Lucas, SVD, from the Words in other words book
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